Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell is a gifted fighter pilot who was seriously injured while saving SG-1 in Season 7's two-part finale "The Lost City." Fully recuperated, Mitchell arrived at Stargate Command to join the team he fought so hard to save, only to find that SG-1 wasn't quite like he remembered. Now, after a year as the team's leader, he finds himself facing a galaxy of perils unlike anything he could possibly have expected.
Ben Browder is best known to sci-fi fans for his starring role as John Chrichton on
Farscape, as Commander John Crichton, a 20th-century American astronaut who was accidentally shot through a wormhole to the other side of the universe. He also is familiar to television audiences for his role as "Sam," Neve Campbell's boyfriend in the FOX series
Party of Five. In addition, he has appeared in several TV movies, including
Paper Mansions: The Dottie West Story starring Michelle Lee,
Danielle Steel's Secrets starring Christopher Plummer and Josie Bissett,
Innocent Victims with Rick Schroeder, and
A Wing and a Prayer with Patty Duke. His serial TV credits include guest-starring roles in
Melrose Place,
Grace Under Fire,
Murder She Wrote and
Boys of Twilight with Wilford Brimley.
Browder made his feature-film debut in
Memphis Belle. He also appeared in
Nevada with Gabrielle Anwar and Kirstie Alley,
A Kiss Before Dying with Matt Dillon, and the independent feature
Boogie Boy, directed by Craig Hamann.
Browder appeared in the Broadway production of
The Merchant of Venice starring Dustin Hoffman, as well as other regional theatre productions.
Born in Memphis and raised in Charlotte, N.C., where his family owns and operates a NASCAR Busch series racecar, Browder is a graduate of Furman University in Greenville, S.C. He received his acting training at Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
